Events: PEN America

If you don’t have plans tomorrow night, I suggest attending the benefit for PEN America. Your fifteen-dollar ticket will help support the organization’s award-winning semi-annual literary journal. (Portions of the latest issue, “Checkpoints,” are online.) In exchange, you’ll get a chance to listen to Nathan Englander read one of his favorite George Saunders stories and to watch Edward Albee and Sarah Ruhl stage a reading of a play excerpted in the journal. Other featured guests include André Aciman, Anthony Appiah, Ron Chernow, Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, Janet Malcolm, and Francine Prose. I’ll be there in my party dress. Details, in full, are below:

Global Correspondences: A benefit for PEN AmericaTuesday, February 24th, at 7 P.M.Cooper Union’s Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.

As the years passed, Tom grew more entrenched in his homelessness. He was absorbed in lofty fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between.